Improvisation & Licks
ShareThisImprovisation is what jazz is all about. Use these lessons to learn how to improvise.
Improvisation: the Concept 
Master improvisors of the bebop style use four basic elements of music to create their solos: chord tones, arpeggios, scale passages and approach patterns. Watch how Hank Mobely's solo over (more...)
Master improvisors of the bebop style use four basic elements of music to create their solos: chord tones, arpeggios, scale passages and approach patterns. Watch how Hank Mobely's solo over (more...)
Improv Drills
Improv Drill: Chordscales | Improv Drill: Chord Tones | Improv Drill: Approach Patterns Part 1 | Improv Drill: Approach Patterns Part 2 | Improv Drill: Arpeggios
The Improv Drill series of lessons is a critcal group of lessons that will get you deep into the changes of any tune by teaching you how to isolate and drill the four components of melodic construction: chord (more...)
Improv Drill: Chordscales | Improv Drill: Chord Tones | Improv Drill: Approach Patterns Part 1 | Improv Drill: Approach Patterns Part 2 | Improv Drill: Arpeggios
The Improv Drill series of lessons is a critcal group of lessons that will get you deep into the changes of any tune by teaching you how to isolate and drill the four components of melodic construction: chord (more...)
Improvising Over Passing Diminished Chords
There is a lot of uncertainty that surrounds diminished chords. How do they work exactly? What chordscales do they take? How do you improvise over them? Gain some insight into these questions through (more...)
There is a lot of uncertainty that surrounds diminished chords. How do they work exactly? What chordscales do they take? How do you improvise over them? Gain some insight into these questions through (more...)
Three Benny Green Licks
Benny Green is a hard swinging and intense modern jazz pianist built from the hard bop mold. Influenced by Bud Powell, Phineas Newborn and Oscar Peterson, his solos are both technically challenging yet (more...)
Benny Green is a hard swinging and intense modern jazz pianist built from the hard bop mold. Influenced by Bud Powell, Phineas Newborn and Oscar Peterson, his solos are both technically challenging yet (more...)
Improvising with Motivic Development
Motivic development is the compositional technique of creating a melody that is made up of a single melodic idea (a motive) that is subsequently "developed" by being repeated, altered, modified or (more...)
Motivic development is the compositional technique of creating a melody that is made up of a single melodic idea (a motive) that is subsequently "developed" by being repeated, altered, modified or (more...)
Improvising Over . . .
Pachelbel's Canon | In Your Own Sweet Way | Improvising Over The Blues: Wynton Kelly | Just in Time | Yardbird Suite | Lady Bird | Confirmation
The "Improvising Over . . ." series of lessons is an ongoing collection of lessons on how to improvise over the chord changes to important tunes in the jazz (more...)
Pachelbel's Canon | In Your Own Sweet Way | Improvising Over The Blues: Wynton Kelly | Just in Time | Yardbird Suite | Lady Bird | Confirmation
The "Improvising Over . . ." series of lessons is an ongoing collection of lessons on how to improvise over the chord changes to important tunes in the jazz (more...)
Licks
Kenny Barron Lick | Blues Lick | Tommy Flanagan Minor iiV Lick | Bebop Lick | Jessica Williams Break Lick | Tommy Flanagan Whole Tone Turnaround Lick
Licks are short melodic ideas of 2, 4 or 8 measures that jazz players use in their solos. Almost all players use them to one degree or another when they (more...)
Kenny Barron Lick | Blues Lick | Tommy Flanagan Minor iiV Lick | Bebop Lick | Jessica Williams Break Lick | Tommy Flanagan Whole Tone Turnaround Lick
Licks are short melodic ideas of 2, 4 or 8 measures that jazz players use in their solos. Almost all players use them to one degree or another when they (more...)
Write a Solo over Autumn Leaves
Writing out solos is an important part of learning to improvise. You can take time to think about and manipulate the notes without being limited by your ability to play them in real time. Watch as a solo (more...)
Writing out solos is an important part of learning to improvise. You can take time to think about and manipulate the notes without being limited by your ability to play them in real time. Watch as a solo (more...)
How to Learn Licks
Licks are short melodic ideas of 2, 4 or 8 measures that jazz players use in their solos. Almost all players use them to one degree or another when they improvise. Learning licks is a good way to build your (more...)
Licks are short melodic ideas of 2, 4 or 8 measures that jazz players use in their solos. Almost all players use them to one degree or another when they improvise. Learning licks is a good way to build your (more...)
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